{"id":1908,"date":"2020-05-31T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2020-05-31T16:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T15:16:58","slug":"review-the-boy-the-mole-the-fox-and-the-horse-by-charlie-mackesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-boy-the-mole-the-fox-and-the-horse-by-charlie-mackesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK, I&#8217;ll confess: I don&#8217;t get it.  The illustrations are lovely.  The message is nice.  It might work as children&#8217;s book, but for adults?  I&#8217;m not so sure.  And yet the book is  mega best-seller and people seem to love it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no real story here, just a series of Hallmark-style aphorisms about how important it is to love and be loved, to be kind, etc.  Everyone is special.  We should all be nice.  And that&#8217;s about it.  I wouldn&#8217;t recommend this book to an adult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ll confess: I don&#8217;t get it. The illustrations are lovely. The message is nice. It might work as children&#8217;s book, but for adults? I&#8217;m not so sure. And yet the book is mega best-seller&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}